Electrical connector.



H. FRANKEL. ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 20,1916.

1%], 1 128 Patented Jan. 2, 191?.

HARRY FRANKEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO FBANKEL CONNECTOR COMPANY,

ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

Application filed April 20, 1916. Serial Ito. 92,445.

To all whomit may concern.

Be it known that I, HARRY Faren, a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at New York, Y., have invented parts separated.

In the "drawings I have illustrated and shall describe herein. my invention as applied to a connector of the kind applied to a binding post in which the connector is provided with a forked arm 1 which it is designed to be secured to a binding post or screw-bolt 2. The connector proper comprises the body 3 which, as shown, is threaded, and which is provided with a longitudinal centrabbore. The free end of the connector is tapered and is reduced in diameter, as at 4. The free end of said connector is likewise slitted longitudinally to form short powerful gripping jaws. Screwing on to the body 3 is a collar 5 which has a screw thread extending partially through the same, the outer unthreaded end being internally reduced or tapered, as indicated at 6 to engage the tapered end of the body 3.

7 represents a wire which in this instance,

is provided with an insulating covering 8.

This wire may be connected to the connector by stripping a portion of the insulated covering from the end thereof and pushing the exposed end of the wire into the longitudinal bore of the body 3. The sleeve 5 may then be screwed up until the tapered portion 43 engages the tapered end of the connector body so as to draw the two sides thereof into intimate binding contact with the wire. lbe reduced portion 4 permits the gripping ends on opposite sides of the slit to yield more readily than if the sides were of heavy stock throughout, and for that reason I prefer to provide this annular groove or reduced portion. By this simple means, I am enabled to electrically connect a wire with the terminal end very quickly, and without the use of any special tools, and without the necessity of bending and thereby weakening the wire.

It is obvious that this connector may be employed in a wide variety of designs and to that end it shouid be understood that I do not desire to limit myself to the particular form and arrangement of parts herein shown and described.

What I claim is:

A terminal connector comprising a threaded body having a plurality of short gripping jaws extending longitudinally thereof at one end, and a longitudinal passage through said jaws into said body, an annular groove around said connector at the outer end of said threaded portion and the inner end of said jaws, and a contractin member arranged to screw onto said threa ed body and engage with and contract said )tlWS.

HARRY FRANKEL. 

